Seeking the Most Wholesome Society

The great majority of other men seek the society of those friends who join them in their follies and not of those who admonish them, just as they prefer the most pleasant to the most wholesome food.  Isocrates.  To Demonicus.  Book 1.  Section 45.

Heroically nude Herakles reclining possibly at a symposium Greek Hellenistic Period 3rd -2nd century BCE Bronze photographed at the Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, Washington.



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